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Valentino confirms luxe label up for sale
07-09 19:56
Italian fashion house Valentino is in exclusive talks with a potential but unnamed buyer, the company said, with Qatar's royal family believed to be interested....

Singapore drops mandatory death penalty for drug couriers
07-09 19:45
Singapore announced plans to ease the application of the death penalty in some murder and drugs cases, but maintained that capital punishment, carried out by hangi...

London tightens scrutiny of thousands of students
07-09 19:33
Dubious student applications to study in Britain will be weeded out under compulsory interviews test by the UK Border Agency from the end of this month, a lea...

Mubarak sons on trial again for corruption
07-09 18:47
The sons of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, Alaa and Gamal, appeared in court to face a new corruption trial today, after the two were acquitted in a...

Gunmen kill seven in attack on Pakistan military camp
07-09 17:14
Gunmen opened fire on Monday on a riverside military encampment in eastern Pakistan, an area where violence is rare, killing six soldiers and a policeman, the mi...

Pakistan begins work to speed NATO supply transit
07-09 17:11
Pakistan is doubling the capacity for NATO trucks at a key border crossing to speed up processing for an expected influx of supplies for troops in Afghanista...

Obama to extend some Bush tax cuts
07-09 16:08
US President Barack Obama will call for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than US$250,000 (HK$1.93 million) a year, acco...

South Sudan celebrates birthday
07-09 15:50
Dancing and singing, South Sudanese put aside dire warnings over the stability and economic viability of their fledgling nation, the world's newest, to celebrat...

Bangladeshi held in Malaysia’s biggest party drug bust
07-09 15:45
Malaysian customs made the country's biggest drug bust so far this year, seizing nearly three million party drug pills worth 58.28 million ringgit (HK$141.9 mil...

Court clears way for Russia’s WTO membership
07-09 15:38
Russia's Constitutional Court cleared the path for lawmakers to approve membership of the WTO by ruling that joining the world free trade club was legal and i...

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